The black fog hovered over the ancestral hall for a long time, and the prayers to the gods inside were intermittent, and even accompanied by sobbing sounds.
Li Hongyu said to the fat senior brother, "Find something and break the door open."
The fat senior brother said with a bitter face: "It's too late. Look at the negative energy and resentment up there. By the time we break the door open, everyone will probably be dead."
The most difficult thing is that you cannot post talismans outside to drive away ghosts.
Once it is attached, it is equivalent to trapping the evil spirits inside, and the final result is still that nothing will be left.
Chen Ling raised his head and shouted into the door, "The Yellow God you believe in is simply a mountain spirit in disguise. His so-called blessing is just to trick you into offering sacrifices to him. The real God is merciful, how could he allow you to sacrifice living people!"
"Shut up!" The village chief was so angry that his face turned red. He kowtowed towards the ancestral hall again, turned around and walked past the people kneeling on the ground, and shouted at the door, "Get out of here! If you don't leave, don't blame us for being rude!"
Li Hongyu gave an order: "Knock on the door!"
The thin brother said, "There are no tools."
Li Hongyu frowned and stared at him. His eyes frightened him a little. "Use your body to push him away!"
The thin senior brother and the fat senior brother looked at each other, raised their hands and said, "You are fat, you go and hit it."
The others saw the two brothers dragging their feet and passing the buck, and they became anxious. One of the tall men stepped forward and said, "I'll do it."
Chen Ling pulled Li Hongyu back and looked at the fat and thin brothers. Logically speaking, the situation inside was very urgent. Every minute of delay would put the people inside in more danger.
But why are these two people so calm
Chen Ling didn't want to think of the worst, but the previous scene always gave him the illusion that the fat and thin senior brother was delaying time.
The fat and thin brothers felt the gaze coming from the right, and turned their heads to look over there, but found that the people on the other side were all concentrating on looking at the team member who was banging on the door, and not at themselves.
The wooden door had just been replaced two years ago and was very sturdy. The bolt inside was also made of thick solid wood. Despite repeated physical impacts, the door of the ancestral hall did not move at all.
"Fuck!" a team member cursed, "I'm going to climb over the wall!"
After he said that, he gathered all his strength and jumped upwards. Just as he grabbed the top of the wall with both hands, something from inside hit his fingers with the force of gravity.
The team member cried out in pain and fell to the ground.
Looking down, he saw his fingers were red and he roared, "They hit me with a hammer!"
Chen Ling took a look at the ten fingers. The villagers were quite ruthless. Every joint was red and purple, and some places even had the skin scratched.
"Village chief, I have said everything I need to say. I can't do anything if you insist on seeking death." He turned around and looked at Li Hongyu, "Let's go."
This is a provocation, trying to test whether the person inside will open the door after they leave.
As a result, the door did not open, but screams were heard.
There was endless pain mixed in with the screams, and some people even screamed, "Go away, ghost, ghost!"
Chen Ling and Li Hongyu turned around and retreated together tacitly.
The two cooperated perfectly. Chen Ling knelt on one knee with his palm facing up and fingers crossed. Li Hongyu immediately cooperated by stepping on it, using the force to jump upwards, and then he held on to the wall and flipped in.
This was the first time he walked into the ancestral hall. What he saw was not the solemn and neatly arranged tablets, but blood all over the floor and villagers rolling on the ground.
In order to ask for forgiveness from the gods, they killed all the livestock in their home before the evil spirit arrived and entered the ancestral hall.
He put it in a plastic bag to prevent the blood from spilling out, and then took it to the ancestral hall.
They were full of hope, hoping that the gods would be merciful and help them temporarily because of so many sacrifices. However, they did not expect that after they opened the plastic bag, the evil spirit that had not followed them suddenly appeared behind them.
They would recognize those faces even if they turned into ashes!
When the evil spirits smelled the fresh blood, they became more violent. When the villagers saw them staring at the raw meat at their feet, they felt something and quickly picked it up and handed it to them.
However, they didn't expect that the evil spirit that was greedily looking at the bloody livestock in the last second suddenly attacked them.
They entered the villagers' bodies through their mouths, eyes, noses and ears, and soon, each of them had a protruding human face.
Some grow on the cheeks, some on the chest, some on the abdomen and back. Each face is different, but they represent the sin of harming other people's lives out of ignorance.
Chen Ling also climbed in, jumped down from the wall, and walked behind Li Hongyu: "It's a ghost face sore."
The resentful evil spirits dispersed their souls and planted their resentment towards the older generation of villagers, along with the yin and ghost energy, into their bodies.
Ghost face sores cannot be removed or cured. If they must be removed, they will only make room for new ones to grow.
They will always be with you, causing constant pain, until the body they inhabit dies.
Anyone who pushes others into hell for his own selfish desires will live in hell and suffer torture for the rest of his life.
Chen Ling turned around, opened the bolt, and let the special investigation personnel outside in. Looking at the people on the ground, they were all stunned.
"This..." Senior Brother Shou was dumbfounded, "This is hopeless."
The fat senior brother sighed, "I'd rather die than torture him to the end. I can only say that he who commits evil will suffer." He looked at Li Hongyu, "Let's collect evidence first so that we can write a case report when we go back."
Li Hongyu nodded: "Okay."
Chen Ling looked at the fat and thin senior brother again and asked casually, "I remember you said that the two senior brothers were not doing field work?"
"Yes, they are all civilian positions." Li Hongyu did not hide it. "There have been a lot of things going on recently, so they are often deployed to perform field missions with me."
Chen Ling pondered for a moment and gave an evaluation: "Not very reliable."
Li Hongyu thought of something, "Are you talking about the banging on the door just now?"
"Yeah." Chen Ling was not afraid of offending people. He just wanted to know whether his suspicion was a doubt or a real illusion. "I feel like they are deliberately delaying time."
Li Hongyu was stunned, then smiled, "Don't worry, they have always been like this. It may be because they didn't go out much before, so they always push each other when doing things."
Chen Ling thought to himself, is that really the case? "I'm just thinking too much."
Every old man in the village had a ghost face sore on his body, and he could do nothing but groan and cry out in pain.
Seeing the group of people in black suits sending them home and leaving, the village chief jumped up from his bed and said, "You're just going to leave us here and not care about us. You must send us to the hospital!"
A stay in any of those hospitals out there would cost thousands of yuan, and they couldn't afford that.
These people were well dressed and had cars, so they could only count on them.
It was clear from the look on his face that he was trying to blackmail them. Chen Ling stood on the ground, looking down at the old man in black who was sitting on the ground, clearly sweating from the pain, but still insisting on being a rogue. "Think clearly, this thing is your sin. It will grow again after you cut it off, and the growth process will be ten times more painful than it is now. If you still insist, I'll take you to the hospital now."
The village chief thought he was deliberately threatening to escape the dry cleaning, so he hissed a few times and said firmly: "Don't scare me, send me to the hospital now."
Chen Ling: "Okay, as you wish."
All the way from Fenglin Mountain to the city, the village chief kept crying out in pain. Li Hongyu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, wanted to turn around and tell him to shut up several times.
Finally, after being tortured by noise all the way, the car arrived at the hospital.
Because they were a cooperative unit of the Special Investigation Department, after Li Hongyu entered the room and revealed his identity, a liaison doctor immediately came out and helped them lift the village chief onto the bed and pushed him into the dedicated operating room.
As soon as he sat down on the bench, Chen Ling's phone suddenly rang. It was Wu Weiwei calling.
Wu Weiwei quickly explained, "We have completely finished the work here. All the evil spirits have been taken to the underworld by the underworld officials. The injured staff members of the guild hall have also been taken away by car. We estimate that we will be able to reach the city in half an hour."
He paused and asked, "Brother Chen, haven't you finished dealing with the things in the village? When will you be back?"
"Li Hongyu and I sent the village chief to the hospital together." Chen Ling briefly explained the matter of the ghost face sore, and then reminded, "I will go back to Yuhe Mountain directly after this is over. You can go back directly as well. There is no need to come and meet up with me."
Wu Weiwei said okay on the other end and then hung up the phone.
Li Hongyu glanced at him sideways, "Wu Weiwei?"
"Yes." Chen Ling said, "The hot spring resort has been basically completed."
Li Hongyu hummed, his eyes dropped to the ground, his thoughts seemed to drift away. After a moment, he looked up at Chen Ling, "What did you say to Qing Tanzi's soul before we came here?"
"There is another mastermind behind him, but the mastermind has never shown up." Chen Ling said, "And if you trace it back, the sacrifice in Fengling Village has existed for two hundred years. In other words, someone has been creating a corpse-raising ground since two hundred years ago."
"The mastermind has never shown up?" Li Hongyu thought it was a bit far-fetched. "Then how did Qing Tanzi and Huang Fugui receive the order? Is it a one-way communication?"
Chen Ling shook his head: "They said that the mastermind behind this is everywhere, coming and going without a trace, and the transmission of information is even stranger. Sometimes it is very far away, and sometimes it is very close, as if it is in the brain or in the ear..."
Li Hongyu: "What were their original words?"
Chen Ling: "Exactly what I said. Do you think it's weird?"
Li Hongyu's expression became serious: "I remember that in the Rong Xin case, you told me that Zhou Yuanxin heard someone bewitching him."
"Yes, and Rongxin is also a perfect place to raise corpses and souls." Chen Ling's face was gloomy, and he clasped his hands together. "I am worried that Rongxin and Fengling Mountain are just a corner of the chessboard, and the mastermind behind them has bigger chess to play."
Li Hongyu stood up and said, "I have to report this matter."
Chen Ling: "Alright, you have more people, you can check and investigate further to see if there are any extremely yin places similar to Rong Xin and Feng Ling."
As he said this, he thought of the wild cemetery in the eastern suburbs. After thinking for a few seconds, he said it out loud.
"Pingshan?" Li Hongyu frowned. "I know about that piece of land. Before the boss bought the land, he asked someone from our Qingxuan Temple to take a look. Although the land is surrounded by mountains on three sides and hills on one side, there is no accumulated Yin energy. And just in case, we also buried jade carvings of Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, Vermillion Bird, and White Tiger in the four corners to suppress the corpse energy and Yin energy with the power of protection from all directions."
Chen Ling felt strange: "Do you have to buy that piece of land? Isn't the boss afraid of any problems later?"
Li Hongyu: "The boss doesn't believe in gods or Buddhas."
No wonder.
Since you don’t believe it, you naturally won’t be afraid.
"From this point of view, there shouldn't be any major problems with that place." Chen Ling said this, but he was actually planning on going to check it out early tomorrow morning.
There was no one in the corridor outside the operating room. Only hospital staff were coming and going. It was a bit awkward for the two of them to just sit there.
Li Hongyu straightened his coat and stood up. "I'll go report what you said and I'll be back soon."
Chen Ling waved his hand to tell him to go quickly, while he held his chin and continued to think about Fenglin Mountain.
In addition to the speculation that there was some connection between Rongshen Middle School and Fengling Mountain, he was also puzzled by one thing, which was why Qing Tanzi wanted to bring his senior sister here.
What was his purpose? Unfortunately, his question was interrupted by Li Daoxuan who suddenly appeared.
Chen Ling took out his cell phone and called Jiang Yu, asking him whether Li Daoxuan's heavenly soul had been taken away along with the other two souls and seven spirits by the underworld.
Jiang Yu: "No, he was taken away by the Special Investigation Department."
Chen Ling heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. That would be much easier. After all, Li Hongyu was an acquaintance of his in the Special Investigation Department. As soon as Li Hongyu came back, he asked to go to the Special Investigation Department with him.
Li Hongyu put his phone back in his pocket and asked doubtfully, "What's the matter?"
Chen Ling: "I have something else to ask Qing Tanzi."
Li Hongyu thought for a moment and said, "I'll send a message and ask."
Less than three minutes after the message was sent out, a reply was received, stating that Qing Tanzi's soul had indeed been taken to the Special Investigation Department for a detailed investigation.
Non-departmental personnel have to go through a series of cumbersome procedures to enter the Special Investigation Department. In order to avoid wasting time, Li Hongyu called the reviewer and conducted an investigation directly in the hospital.
Just as it was over, the door of the operating room opened.
As the tightly closed door of the operating room opened, a strong odor spread out.
The smell was very strange, like rotten vegetables, or fresh bloody meat in a jar. The stench and blood were mixed together. Even the doctor who was pushing the bed out couldn't bear it anymore and covered his mouth. The small half of his face that was exposed outside the mask looked like a vegetable.
Chen Ling covered his mouth and nose tightly, "When will he wake up?"
The doctor's voice was a little buzzing through his shielding palm: "It depends on the individual's physical condition. If it's short, he will wake up in half an hour, and if it's long, he will wake up in an hour."
Li Hongyu also covered his mouth and asked, "Did you get the painkiller injection?"
"It was given, but the effect will have to wait until the patient wakes up to see." The doctor had never received a patient with leprosy before and said with some doubt, "One thing I find strange is that after the leprosy was removed, the wound did not bleed. It just seems like there is something hidden underneath."
To be honest, it's disgusting.
Li Hongyu: "It's a new ghost face sore that is about to grow."
Upon hearing this, the doctor and the nurse opened their eyes wide in surprise, "This thing can't be eradicated?"
Li Hongyu shook his head and took a half step back to allow the doctors to push the village chief to the ward.
It was already midnight. Chen Ling and Li Hongyu were taking turns resting on another bed in the same ward. Just as he closed his eyes, Li Hongyu suddenly reached out and slapped him awake.
"woke up."
Following Li Hongyu's voice, the village chief opened his eyes. Before he could see his surroundings clearly, he felt a distant pain coming from his waist, as if something was trying to drill out of his body!
He screamed in horror, sat up suddenly, and lifted up his loose hospital gown to take a look.
The face was still there on the side of his waist.
As if sensing his gaze, the eyes on that face slowly opened, the pupils looked up, and stared at the village chief. At the same time, the mouth of that face began to chew.
Baji, baji, the tongue licks the teeth, and the upper and lower lips touch each other.
These seemingly ordinary tiny movements could cause the most extreme pain to the village chief. He felt that every time the other party chewed, a piece of meat was pulled out from under his skin!
The wailing sounds from the ward echoed in the corridor for a long time, all night long.
It was too late, so Chen Ling did not return to Yuhe Mountain. He wanted to get a room near the hospital and stay there for one night, but Li Hongyu invited him to stay at Qingxuan Temple.
Chen Ling said politely: "It's so late now, isn't it too disturbing?"
"It doesn't matter. The brothers in the temple always play cards or watch TV series at night and go to bed very late." Li Hongyu said, "You can go back to the Special Investigation Department with me tomorrow morning."
Chen Ling thought about it and thought that this would save a lot of trouble. "Okay."
It was the first time that Li Hongyu brought his friend home, and everyone in the temple went crazy. The senior brothers stopped playing cards and watching TV series, and all ran out to see their junior brother's new friend.
When they heard that the new friend was actually the young man who had successfully invited the Five Thunders down, everyone's gazes immediately changed from ordinary curiosity to shining inquisition.
Chen Ling felt very uncomfortable being stared at by people around him. He smiled awkwardly and said hello, "Hello, senior brothers."
"Good, good, good." A senior brother pulled his arm, carefully looked at Chen Ling's facial features, and commented, "The forehead is broad and full, the eyes are clear and bright, the nose is straight like a peak, and the lips are as red as light purple."
He nodded and pressed Chen Ling's shoulder hard: "Little brother, you have the face of great wealth and honor."
Chen Ling clasped his hands together and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother."
"You're welcome." The senior brother took out his mobile phone and showed the QR code for payment. "Just give me a price that suits you."
Chen Ling: "...Okay, Senior Brother."
Li Hongyu pinched his nose bridge with a headache, forced his way through the crowd, and pulled Chen Ling away.
"My brothers and sisters are not serious, don't mind them."
"No, it's quite interesting." Chen Ling thought that Qingxuan Temple was solemn and dignified, but he didn't expect the atmosphere to be so relaxed and lively.
Li Hongyu smiled and took him to the last courtyard. The side rooms here were set up for pilgrims who came to listen to the sermons of their master and uncles to stay overnight. The place was remote and the noise from outside could hardly get in.
The layout of the room is simple, with a wooden bed, an octagonal table and two stools beside the table.
That’s all.
The bathroom is public and is located in the northwest corner of the yard. Fortunately, it is modern and not a dry toilet.
After Li Hongyu brought a toothbrush and towel, he went back to rest. Chen Ling sat in the room for a while, drank a cup of tea, and went to the bathroom with toiletries.
After washing up, his confused mind became clear and he fell into a drowsy sleep after three o'clock.
In his fuzzy state, he seemed to see the door of his room open, and something rustled in. He struggled to sit up, and saw that the door was open, and outside was a dark yard.
As if sensing something, he slowly lowered his head and looked at the ground beside the bed.
There lay a woman, wearing a pink windbreaker, her body lying on the ground in a weird posture, grinning at Chen Ling.